Interesting fact about the word ‘information’. According to this list, ‘information’ is the 315th most used word in the 450 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English, appearing 127331 times.
Month: July 2012
Thesis Completion Seminar
Details of my upcoming thesis completion seminar:
Title: A Framework for Semantic Information
Date, Time: 24/7/2012, 5:15pm
Location: Old Quad Common Room, Melbourne University
Abstract: In this talk I present a summary of my thesis research, which develops an account of semantic information. After an introductory overview of information, I shall outline the main points and results of the following chapters:
– Quantifying Semantic Information
– Agent-Relative Informativeness
– Environmental Information and Information Flow
– Information and Knowledge